Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Facebook is scheduled to release its initial public offering sometime on Wednesday, and is rumored to be valued at $100 billion. If it turns out to be worth more than $100 billion, Facebook would be the fifteenth-largest IPO in world history, out-valuing Google's 2004 IPO by sixfold. This means big changes for the company itself, which could see many of its chief ideas people and programmers striking out on their own.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from how we learn and work to how we communicate and even conduct war. Frontline correspondent Douglas Rushkoff and producer Rachel Dretzin discuss Frontline’s documentary "Digital Nation," which investigates ...

Thursday, March 20, 2008

We continue our discussions with media thinker Douglas Rushkoff, our Thursday weekly guest for the month of March. Today we discuss the way that both the tools of interactive media and the ethos of open source living have affected the democratic process.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Our series of discussions with Douglas Rushkoff on how we navigate the media landscape continues. This week we find out how kids went from being taught how to program to being at the mercy of interactive technology. Is the online world more dangerous for kids than the real world? What ...

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Douglas Rushkoff, media thinker and author of Get Back in the Box joins us every Thursday in March to discuss how we navigate the media landscape. This week: We look at the promise of new technology to bring people together and how the Internet may have already passed ...

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Maureen Dowd, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, sees a “duel of historical guilts” in the Democratic primary. Some women feel that voting for Barack Obama is a betrayal of their gender, and their opposition to him may be hardening. Plus a conversation with media thinker Douglas Rushkoff; Albany ...